Complete rubbish, I mean, complete rubbish, Haye didn't need to be there, he was being insulting and no he didn't need to hit Chisora first, that is a complete cop out.
You even manage to say in your little "he had no choice" speech, that in fact Chisora expected one of TWO things, Haye was the agressor in every possible way, he started the shouting, he started the insulting, he started the fight and he ran away like a little girl, he's a pathetic pratt. "I fled the country because Chisora threatened to shoot me".
As always with Haye, he's all mouth, then when someone makes a blatantly impossible to follow up on threat(did he think he flew into Germany with a gun?) he ran away like a girl. I seem to remember the same thing happening in his fight with Klitchko, all mouth but as soon as he got in the ring he was running away like a little girl.
As for prison sentences, beyond the papers I haven't seen much/any talk of it, but its nice to see anyone who mentions they did something wrong is gay, how very enlightened of you.
It's more funny based on your "respect" for Haye not backing down, when that is in no way what he did. When scared, he threw a punch and then fled the country, that is exactly NOT the act of a man or anything to respect him for. He came in acting like a big man, got scared when someone called him on it, threw a sucker punch, then ran off like a girl. Those are the actions of someone who is all mouth, no courage and a pathetic excuse for a man. A "real" man, someone to be respected, would have simply asked for a fight, accepted what he was told, and if someone got in his face, not be goaded like a child into a fight, even if he was hit, he was in no danger, he had no need to fight. Respect him for not backing down...... he started it, he started the mouthing off, he had no need to be there, he threw the first punch and literally fled the country.
He's a pathetic excuse for a man, and has always been so.